André 3000, one in every of Hip Hop’s nice craftsmen, writers and performers, brings his woodwind ardour full circle immediately with the world premiere of the album’s official visible element, Listening To The Solar (an intimate album movie for New Blue Solar 11/17/2023), a 90-minute lengthy quick movie (or visible listening session). The function, directed by Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness) and premiered on YouTube, is a efficiency artwork piece that finds André bodily channeling the spirit of his newest studio album set in a serene, blue-lit setting along with his aura and flute taking centerstage.
“I hope you benefit from the trip as a lot as we did. What you hear is what we did because it was taking place,” André 3000 says concerning the “formations” that comprise New Blue Solar on the onset of his new quick movie. The artist and multihyphenate, with the assistance of just some props (together with a lit candle and a site visitors cone), offers a fascinating visible companion to his first studio album, which is able to maybe function inspiration for how you can expertise the eight-track LP.
André was candid with GQ in a November cowl story about his inspirations behind the album. “I’d prefer to make issues that once I’m lifeless and gone 3,000 years from now, folks might dig up and discover,” he stated. “So if that’s sculpting, if that’s truly bodily paintings, portray, designing devices, that’s the place I’m at proper now.” The Atlanta-bred artist’s viewers, cultivated throughout components of three many years, is on that journey with him.
New Blue Solar peaked at no. 1 on Billboard’s New Age and Present Different Albums charts, in addition to Apple Music’s Different Albums chart following its launch, along with a no. 2 peak on iTunes Albums and Apple Music total albums charts, huge performances for the thematically tangential launch. The album’s endurance has matched its intrigue, because it peaks as soon as once more at no. 1 on the Present Different Albums Chart this week, to go along with a no. 2 slot on the LP Vinyl Chart. André and his flute have gotten one thing to say, and the world is each listening and witnessing it reside. André 3000 will tour his debut LP for the second time this yr in September, when he kicks off a 26-date North American trek starting September 19 in New Orleans, and concludes on November 14 in André’s hometown of Atlanta.
André 3000’s flute path, which has taken him from the Venice coast the place he met the producer of his first flute, to a North American tour of his new album, has led him to one more level on his exploration timeline: Listening to The Solar.
